Although
asking laboring mom's to refrain from eating is still standard practice, most midwives believe the risk of aspiration is low and the benefits of eating outweigh this danger.
Not exact matches
Just
ask other
moms about that part, one mother actually hung fourteen windows of plastic wrap and did the heat application to seal the windows for winter in her ninth month, hoping it would put her into
labor!
So we have babies and especially if it was a long
labor, I always
ask the
mom who has weight loss concerns, how long she was on an IV for.
As a
mom in
labor, you may be
asked not to eat once in the hospital but whether you choose to do so first at home is your decision — so it is important to your research and talk to the professionals, so you can make it an informed one.
For this reason, some
moms ask for some of the lights to be turned off during
labor so that the mood can at least be a little bit more tranquil.
We were doing a homebirth, but when I got to her house, she
asked me to shave her because she never had the chance before going into
labor... anything to help a
mom out, but this was by far the strangest request I ever had.»
My
mom came back with food to drop off for us; she came upstairs to say hello to me during
labor before she headed back home (as I had planned) but I
asked her to stay.